Sentence examples for scraps of thread from inspiring English sources
According to string theory, most particles are made from strings that are open-ended, like scraps of thread.
It's like a tropical evening in here: dim, roughly the color of sunset, scraps of thread and duct tape hanging limp in the humid air.
So peasants and fishermen saved every scrap and bit of thread they could buy, or barter, for recycling into clothing.
The birds were not entirely synchronized in their reproductive stages and some nest building began even before actual nest material was provided (using scraps of food or single threads from backpack material).
What you'll need: large wooden pegs, enamel paint (or felt-tip pens) for the faces, wool for the hair, glue, needle and thread, spare scraps of material.
There you can see guitars made with thread and scraps of cloth, a work he created in 1930 with a glove stuffed to resemble a real hand, a 1935 figure whipped into being by lashing kitchen utensils together, and his 1951 sculpture of a baboon with toy cars for a head.
There's a haunting description in WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn of a dress that is never worn: "[A] bridal gown made of hundreds of scraps of silk embroidered with silken thread, or rather woven over cobweb-fashion, which hung on a headless tailor's dummy, was a work of art so colourful and of such intricacy and perfection that it seemed almost to have come to life".
Leave about 10cm of thread.
"My work is interested in thread -- interns of thread as narrative, thread as family tree, thread as basic element". .
She stows a spool of thread and a needle threaded with the thread.
